We all get annoyed by things. But when people broadcast what annoys them, they force everyone around them to share in their annoyance.

So then, not only do we feel annoyed by whatever naturally irks us, but we also are forced to feel annoyed by the other person’s complaints.

By sharing their complaint with others, they have increased the overall annoyance of the group.

Instead of being annoyed for five minutes by my own problems, I am annoyed for ten minutes. Five minutes by the complaints I keep in my head, and five minutes by their complaints they force into my ears.

There are a lot of problems in the world. You can’t care about all of them.

And if you try, you will probably feel overwhelmed, depressed, and powerless.

Yet we rely on big centralized institutions like national media, national politics, and national monetary policy.

This produces the same result as our complaining acquaintances.

They force problems on all of us that really shouldn’t affect 320 million Americans from coast to coast.

I’m sorry so many people got shot in Chicago. Sounds like a good reason not to live in Chicago. But if you do live in Chicago, I understand why you are concerned with gun violence.

But I don’t live in Chicago. So keep your “solutions” the hell away from me in rural Florida.

It might sound like I am saying you shouldn’t care about national or global problems.

But what I am really saying is, you should care about what you care about…

All of these are great problems to tackle for the right people. But we don’t all need to occupy ourselves with all these problems.

By all means, tackle one of these issues, especially if it is happening in your backyard.

Educate anyone interested… but don’t bully or shame them if they don’t care about whatever you care about.

Everyone has to choose what to focus on. It’s not like I don’t care about the extreme poor in Africa. But I have other things to deal with closer to home. And I can’t possibly solve every world problem–I probably can’t even solve most town problems…

In the end, this means problems get solved by the people who care about them the most, who are affected by them, who are closest to the issue. That’s more efficient.

It means people with the most skin in the game put together the solutions.

And more actually gets done this way!…

The economy is split up into little segments. Everybody’s role is different.

This makes it efficient and doesn’t bog us down with details that don’t concern us.

Everyone does their own job better, by ignoring the jobs they don’t need to do…

It encourages you to get involved in matters that don’t affect you and force others to conform to your subjective whims.

This is why central planning fails.

320 million people should not be controlled by 435 legislators and 1 executive in Washington DC. They cannot possibly know enough about all our lives that they could make good decisions for us–even if they wanted to.